A letter from my health insurance company arrived yesterday announcing a change in policy. For all I know this is standard, but it seem kinda oddly harsh to me. In short: the premium is due on the 1st of the month. If you don’t pay up by the 30th, they’ll drop you. What’s more, once dropped, the policy will not be reinstated.
Maybe standard. But being Just Announced, it makes me wonder… they *have* to pick up any bad risk who bothers to sign up now. And a policy like this might be a way to boot some of the bad risks, I dunno…
The biggest problem I have with this is the mucked-up way the signup process has gone: if, like me, you’ve signed up for automatic withdrawal, something could go wrong and you don’t get debited, don’t get informed, and 30 days later, you don’t got insurance no more.